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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-19
GOOD TINES IN Ell DORADO.

The Foothills Having a Boom-An
Immigration from Florida.
A correspondent writing from Placer
vile, FL Dorado county, says Never in
the history of FL Dorado county has there
been such activity in real estate transac-
tons as during the past three months
More places have changed hands in the
last sixty days than in the ten years pre-
ceding. The new corners are almost with
out exception Eastern people, and a ma
jority of them visited Los Angeles before
coming here. One gentleman from St. Au-
gustine, Florida, who purchased 800 acres
about three miles west of Placerville some
weeks ago, paying $40 an acre therefor,
says the land is of superior quality to
similar lands in Los Angeles which are
held at 81 900 an acre. He has written his
people of the wonderful resources of this
neck of the woods of the purity of our
atmosphere, the healthfulness of our
climate, the wonderful productiveness of
our soil, the abundance of fuel, the splendid
water supply, and above and beyond all,
the cheapness of our lands, and he expects
hundred families from that State to this
section within the next twelve months A
fruit ranch of 100 acres, which was offered
for sale for $1,000 one year ago, was dis
posed of last week through the real estate
firm of E. K. Alsip & Co., of your city, for
Sc, 500. In three months from now thesame
property will bring $4,000. The incoming
strangers have given an impetus to all
kinds of trade, and Placerville is enjoying
quiet little boom. City property is adj
vancing, and our merchants are all doing
driving business All that we want to
make this town the Los Angeles of the
North is the extension of the railroad from
Shingle Springs to Placeryille.
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NEWS. OF THE MORNING.

EAsTERN-Large quantities OF opium are
Struggled from British Columbia across
the lakes into the United States. The
creditors of the New York absconder, Law
ton. are greatly excited over their losses......
A prominent Eastern turf writer thinks
Haegin's horse Ben Ali will win the Sub
urban stakes. ..Great damage has been
caused by floods on the upper Missouri
The convicted Chicago Anarchists cannot,
in any event, be hanged before next fall.
1.-THE President yesterday held long
interviews with Thurman and Robinson
on the subject of the Interstate Commits
sion... There is some talk Of an extra
session of Congress in October. 80. George
C. Gorham is to write the life of Edwin NJ.
Stanton 1.-THE Richmond Hotel in But
falo, n Y, was burned yesterday, and
thirty persons are thought to have per-
ished. Silver in New York, 9S4c.
FoRE1eN.-Bonds of the Mexican Ma
tional Railway have been placed on the
London market. Zobehr Pasha i'm
prisoned at Gibraltar, is about to be par
d9ned by the Egyptian Governmental The
investigation into the operations of the
London Corporation shows genuine
crookedness.. Cholera is doing sad havoc
in South American countries. .....Sllyer In
London, 454d.
PACIFIC CoAsT.-An important irrigation
meeting will be held at Auburn, Placer
county, to-day....A child of j. W. Simp-
son, of Fresno, was run over by handcar
and fatally injured. Exceedingly rich
quartz has been struck near Nevada City.
1.-THE Frankel ENLIGHTENMENT case at Vir-
GINA City has been ed......A bull-fght
at San Rafael, Mex, ended in a riot.
Jas. Barker killed Robert Shaub at MADEIRA
on Thursday. .. Chas. Bixby, of Monterey.
had leg broken by falling e......Henry
Godfrey shot and killed John Mcbride at
San Miguel on Thursday......It is thought
that some Apaches are abroad in Arizona
to steal horses ..A. P. Clark, prominent
citizen of Truckee, is missing.
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OF BOOM AND ITS KINDRED.

The San Francisco Alta is engaged in
the laudable attempt to pluck the word
"boom from the literature of current
enterprise" We wish our contemporary
success, but have no faith in the result of
Its labors. Slang clings to our language
with tenacity not possible to loosen.
Boom means nothing more than an ex-
travagant, abnormal, sudden, and not en-
during advance If the development of
the several sections of this State is in the
order of natural processes, then it is not a
boom and to say we are experiencing a
"boom" is to confess that our advance
ment is spasmodie.
When the genius of Southern California
evolved the word, or at least applied it to
development, settlement AID prosperity,
we struggled long and valiantly against
the slangy thing. But usage, which in
these days develops into the pardonable
with amazing rapidity, has driven US to
use the word now and then-always, how
ever. under protest. If our claims for
California are sincere and well grounded
If there is a basis of truth for all we adj
vance for our climate, soil, and produce
If 50 fair heritage as this is to be ac-i
cepted by men and our acres TEEN with
prosperous population, then the coming of
tbe men out of the East is no BOOM" no
more a BOOM as our contemporary
phrases it, than the sailing Of the May
flower from Delft Haven for Plymouth
Rock.
In this day words are taken for present
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-19
OUR NEWS DISPATCHES

The REcoRD-UNIoN has added to
its news department special cablegrams
of foreign news. As will be noticed by
observant readers, these dispatches, which
are copyrighted to preserve the fruit
of the labor and expenditure, are,
in character and tone, of the highest
order In adding to the expense necessary
TO the conduct of irst-class daily journal
the cost of this new service, the sole pur-
pose has been to give the best, most con-
else and, so far as human effort can effect
it, the most reliable and accurate news
dispatches possible to be compiled. The
agency employed in this service is the very
best and most experienced in the world.
There are no news-gatherers so well dis
ciplined, or more competent than those who
for so many years have furnished the dis
patches which have appeared in the
REcoRD-UNIoN and its associate jour-
mails. The facilities enjoyed by the
agencies they employ for collecting the
worlds news are in no respect equaled by
those of any other association or journals
The special cablegrams, which will now
appear in every issue of this paper, will be
found to be close, unpadded and thought
full Instead of laboring to make few
dispatches cover large area of paper,
under the delusion that the public are de-
ceived into the belief that much genuine
news is thus published, our reporters en-
deavor is to give the most news possible in
the smallest space, compatible with clear
ness and exhaustiyeness. 1t will be
noticed that there is no indulgence in
mere speculation and conjecture, but the
topOitS VIII NC lOunu " lClh.O w S'SHto,
actualities and thoughtful and reliable ex-
pressions in the foreign political, business
and social world, and all that goes to make
up the days news. Very frequently these
dispatches viii be found to really ante
date the hour of our publication, the in
dustry of our news agencies and the differ
ence in longitude accounting for the SEEM
ing paradox. The addition of this new
feature to the REcoRD-UNoN is but an
earnest of the constant effort to make this
journal one of the best and most reliable
of newspapers in the land
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-19
ENsLAVEMENT OF THE RICH


Mr.. Jay Gould, in burst of confidence,
told New York reporter the other day
that his countless dollars have enslaved
him, and that every candid multi-million-
aire would say the same. He doubtless
gave voice to the experience of many rich
men, but not to so many as he claims. We
can well understand how man of great
wealth may permit his possessions to own
him and lead him to the conclusion that
the life of a rich man is not worth living.
This enslavement is due first to the fact
that the care of investments becomes in
these days such terrible strain. 1t is a
constant battle with wealth influences that
depreciate the values possessed by others
in order to augment their own. It is
largely due, secondly, to the thousand and
one efforts of those who have not, to induce
the rich man to part with some portion of
his goods in their interest. Between these
two influences the man of large means is
apt to be kept in hot water. But it is not
necessity. The self-possessed, courage
GUS rich man, who looks more to good ends
to be attained than to the salvation and
multiplication of his coin, is, as the Epoch
trenehantly puts it, noble spectacle when
he Iabors to solve the problem of making a
wise and generous use of his wealth.
The chief discouraging reflection is that
so few make this effort with success, and
that the many miss their opportunities
and make miserable failure.
If the man possessed of asuperabnndance
of worldly goods has not in view benefits
for his fellowmen by their use, he is
indeed to be pitied. There is very lit
tie distinction between the miser, who
boards his coin in hidden bags, and he
who aceumulates with no definite good
end in view. They are both enslaved. The
one is simply more sordid than the other,
to the extent that he does not give his
money reproductive activity, and which
well directed always conserves industry
and benefits mankind generally. But the
rich man who labors in the field Of money
making and saving, and endures the perse-
cution of the begging class, and the as
saults of rival millions, cannot be said to
be enslayed when he has great benefae-
lions in view when he employs his wealth
in great industries; when he so invests it
that it gives employment to many people
when he uses it to crafty the tastes of his
fellows as we'll as himself, by identifying
landscapes, or erecting architectural piles,
or in advancement of scientific research, or
in promotion of industry and art, or for de-
velopment of country, or for the confer
ment of educational benefits, or the sys-
tematic and wise relief of the unfortunate.
But it is said that this involves world
of worry and tribulation, and it unques-
tionably does; but so also does most labor.
The annoyances and fatigue to which such
a man is subject are the sweat Of his brow.
which is the symbol Of all hard labor that
is deserving. For all the troubles Of soul
and mind he may endure, there is compen-
sation for the rich man if he viii but take
it, that others cannot enjoy. He has the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-19
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY

II. Dorsey Cough, an attorney. died on
Thursday, after a lingering illness. The
deceased was a native of Hartford county,
Nd, aged 4S years.
A mass meeting to be held in acknowl-
edgment of the jealous and effective work
of Senator Yrooman will be held at the
Oakland Theater on Tuesday evening next.
The teachers of the Oakland public
schools will give grand reception to Fred
NJ. Campbell, Superintendent of Schools,
when he reterns from his trip to Washing
ton.
Owen Connolly, of East Berkeley. had
too much celebration on Thursday. When
he went home he attacked his wife and
broke her leg. This afternoon he was ar
rested on charge of assault with attempt
to murder
William Harmon has filed suit against
the Sntter-street Railroad Company to re-
cover $40. 1000 for personal injuries sustained
by being violently thrown from dummy
belonging to defendants, on which plaintiff
was riding, on the 18th of July, 1886.
An expressman located on Mission and
Sixth streets was on Thursday the victim
of practical joker, who adorned his horse
with Orange flags and completely envel-
oped the wagon with attractive banners,
much to his disgust. He has offered re-
ward for any information leading to the
discovery of the perpetrator.
Mary Carroll, young girl of about 10
years of age, who has been residing with
her mother at East Oakland while she
worked at the jute mills, has been missing
from her home for two weeks, and a young
man named Tom Weingart had been
paying her some attention and he has not
heen seen for several days.
W. ]. Tuska has caused the arrest of w
R. Hearst, proprietor of the Examiner, on a
charge of criminal libel. Hearst is out on
bail. The alleged libel was contained in
two articles, the first headed A Fee
Hunter" in which Tuska was accused of
driving up trade by unprofessional meth
DDS, and the second was entitled "A Liar
ESDosed -
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Assemblymen Briefly left yesterday or
his return to Los Angeles.
]. Arthur Manley has returned from &
visit to his brother in San Joaquin county
Senator Vrooman and wife returned tc
Oakland yesterday afternoon from this city
Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Grass are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Parvin, at Grand Island, Sac
ramento county.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday
NJ P Perley, Haverhill, Mass; A. Coquill
ard, South Bend, Ind; VIM. H. Myers
CoIoma; ]. H. Rice and wife, Dixon; Frank
Chase, Red Bluff Mrs. ]. G. Ball, Mrs. N
Tyler, Woodland; B. f. Kelley and wife
CORTLAND; J. T. Mcintosh, Chico; s. l.
Stanley, San Francisco; w. L. Blatchley
and wife. Miss Blatchley and sister, Sierra
Valley; J. B. Yount, Dixon
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yester.
day: W. F. Mason, Indianapolis W. F.
Mosby, Butte City e. B. Hoonny, Marys-
vile; Geo. A. Morres, wife and daughter
st. Louis r. Johnston, John B. Keys
Will B. Corwin, Nine leila Trebelli and
maid, Mons. Musin, Paul Sterndorf, Geo
+. Dray, C. Francis, Chas Sonntag, San
Francisco Ed. Smith, Marysyille A. w
Barrett, Los Angeles; ]. n G.. Jasper
Wheatland Chas. P. Thore, Lick Mills
A. Wilson, Willows L. o. Appleby, New
York Henry Speckman, Frank Colon
Nicolas Bene, Chester, Ill.
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THE FEAR OF ovER-PoPULArIoN.

Mr.. Thos. w. Knox, writer who has
not often ventured upon the consideration
of economic topics, contributes an essay
to the Forum for March upon the question
of over-population. He cites statistics at
length to show the remarkable growth of
population, which he thinks indicates
early approach to the point when food
production will cease to respond to the
demands of life. Mr.. Knox is not at all
clear, however, as to what remedy should
be applied, and contents himself with that
exceedingly unsatisfactory kind of argu-
ment that screens itself behind timid ques-
tioning. Thus, he asks the peace societies
which demand the disarmament of the
armies of the world: "Will these advo-
Gates of peace tell us where all this vast
number of men released from military oc-
equations can be employed" And further
on, after asserting that if Nautilus had
good basis for his theory fifty years ago,
there is frmer basis for it at the present
time, considering the work Of science" and
the agencies employed :" in averting dis
ease and prolonging life" he asks, whether
the labors of the humanitarian, or the
fruits of science and invention shave been
for the real benefit OF the race"
The student of humanity and progress
will not hesitate to respond to the essayist
in the affirmative. The answer to all
these speculations upon the capacity of
the earth to maintain the people that are
to live upon it, is simple. Unless it can
do SO, civilization is a failure. To admit
that it is only a sad experiment,
is to deny to the scheme of
nature any orderly arrangement. The plan
of creation cannot be held to have contem-
plated the defeat of its purposes. The
world has thus far proved equal to its pop
ulation, and there is no statistical Or other
reason to believe that it viii not continue
to do so, and the evolutionary processes go
on in an orderly manner.
There can be no other conclusion drawn
from the essayists argument than this,
that mans victory over pestilence, his sue
cess in sanitary science, his progress in dis
covery, his prevention of wars by the arts
of peace, his achievements in defeating the
agencies of ignorance and superstition that
once fed upon human life, and in a large
degree limited its reproduction, are not of
the order of nature, but foreign to it,
antagonizing agencies, such as cholera,
smallpox, the plague, war, famine, MAS
ma, fever, ignorance, intended by benef-
cent Providence to prevent the too rapid
increase of human beings.
To attribute such use Of these agencies
to such a source, as wise provision for the
checking of natural processes, that carry
us nearer and nearer to perfect develop
ment, is to ascribe to creative power or to
natures law, incapacity, or error Of plan
and design, and such laundering as man
would not tolerate in system of econom-
les of his own. He at least would not set
on foot a scheme that should outrun itself,
when possessed of the power to so order 1t
that it should no more than keep pace
with the purposes for which it was de-
signed. Let not Mr.. Knox take trouble to
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Circular from General Manager Towne.

Circular from General Manager Towne.
A. N. Towne, General Manager of the
Pacific system Of the Southern Pacific
Company, has issued circular giving no.
tice of the action to be taken by the COM
pany with reference to the provisions of
the interstate commerce law, which pro-
hibit the use of free passes except in GER
tain cases. The circular reads as follows;
To iUhon ii may concern An Act to regu-
late commerce, known as the interstate COM
merce law, which takes effect on the 4th
day of April, 1887, declares that it shall be
unlawful for any railroad company engaged
in interstate commerce to furnish free
transportation to any person or persons,
except its own officers and employees, or
the officers and employees of other railroad
companies, under penalty of fine not to
exceed 5000 for each offense.
Any director, officer, receiver, trustee,
lessee, or agent of, or person acting for or
employed by a common carrier, who shall
yillfully do or cause to be done, or shall
willingly suffer or permit to be done, any
act. matter, or thing by the Act referred to,
prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or
who shall aid or abet therein, is declared
TO be guilty of misdemeanor, 'and, upon
conviction, to be subject to above fine for
each offense.
| Therefore, those other than railroad
officers and bona fide railroad employees,
holding special tickets (passes) signed by a
| proper officer of this company, granting
| free transportation over the interstate lines
of the Pacific system, will take notice that
after April 3, 1887, said tickets will not be
honored for an interstate trip, or any part
of an interstate trip.
Baggage will not be checked nor will
sleeping-car tickets be sold for an inter
state trip on said special tickets.
Conductors will be instructed to take up
special tickets when offered for an inter
state trip or any part thereof by other than
railroad officers or, employees, and require
payment of regular rates Of fare for the
whole trip.
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San FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places
who is also Sole Advertising Agent for San
Francisco: Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands; Market-street Ferry and junction OF
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
So Also, for sale on all Trains leaving snd
coIo'1 into Sacramento.
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world before him for his exploration; he
can crafty the taste for travel enlarge his
store of knowledge by observation of diff
fering peoples and races; equip his mind
with the means of attaining the chiefest Of
pleasures, by bidding the storehouses of
science, art, music and learning all the
world over to open at his knocking. He
need not exhaust the vital energies in
everyday's toll, for he has the means to
take more than physical rest, since he may
change the scene, engage in varying tasks,
enjoy the rich reward of bringing comfort
to the poor, or take enduring satisfaction
in contemplation Of the ends he has in
view for making that he has acquired do
duty for him when he has laid down the
world and entered upoh the unknown.
The rich man may at least enjoy the
comforting assurance that those dependent
upon him are secure from want, and if
they have been properly trained, that they
will honor his name in living after him.
If he labors with his wealth ever so hard,
he still may make it his servant, and defy
it to make him its slave. It is matter of
personal character, after all; the man
owned by riches, in an humble state would
be owned by men; instead of being a
motor in LIES machinery, he would be
simply senseless cog upon one of the
wheels. If he does not take the leisure
wealth gives him power to command, it is
either because he has not sufficient char
acter to rise superior to his grosser part, or
enjoys life best in those activities in which
his possession Of wealth enables him to
confer benefits upon his fellows, by promot-
ing their material and intellectual welfare.
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You will never have friend if you must
have one without failings.
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THAT Governor Stevenson vetoed the
Nevada lottery bill on constitutional
grounds, does not, as our evening con-
temporary assumes, imply that with the
Constitution out of the way he would have
approved it. That he would not have
done so we have reason to believe from the
character and the whole career of the man.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-19

The REcoRD-US1oS is the only paper on
the coast, outside or San Francisco, that re-
eeiuss the full associated Press dispatches from
al parts of The s0crld. Outside of San Fran
cisco It has no competitor, in point of NUM-
5s-s, IN its home and general circulation
hrauaho,st the coast.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Business Manage
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-10
For Alderman at Large.

Answering the many enquiries made,
1 desire to say that am still before the
people as a candidate for alderman at
large, In accordance with the reply that
/ made to petition signed by business
men Of the city asking me to run for the
office.
l want IL to be distinctly understood
that | am as much interested in the
city's welfare as any man in II.
II the people have confidence in me they
will give me their votes; II not, l am
anxious to know it. / have given all my
time and money for the advancement OF
the city, many times gripping my re-
sources, and no one can be more anxious
than I am to know whether the people
Judge me by idle rumors or by actual
facts. am In the field entirely indie
pendent Of parties or factions.
A. BELKNAP.
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The Beginning of the End.

The beginning of disease is slight debility
or disorder of some of the vital organs, the
stomach, the liver or the bowels usually.
There are dyspeptic symptoms, the liver Is
troublesome, the skin grows tawney and I'M
healthy looking, there are pains in the right
side or through the right shoulder blade. The
climax is often an utter prostratiOn of the
physical energies, perhaps a fatal issue. But
IL the difficulty is met In time with Hostetter
Stomach Bttrers, which is always effective as
a remedy, and il should be resorted to at an
early stage, there will be no reason to appre-
bend those injurious subsequent effects upon
the system often entailed by entirely cured
diseases. Far better is il, also, to employ this
safe remedial agent in fever and ague, and
other malaral complaints, than quinine and
other potent drugs, which, even when they do
prove effectual for a time, ruin the stomach
and impair the general health.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-10

LAREDO, Texas, February, 8, 1887.